“With that 43v setup which is pretty unique to us you get this nice combination of frankly a little more torque and power then you would expect in a bike of this size.”
Somehow I am very doubtful… You’re telling me that with one of the weakest batteries in the e-bike industry, that we get “more torque and power”.

I rode this bike at an e-bike ‘fair’ in Larkspur, California (basically Marin). The ride is shit. It’s as good as any of the other ebikes, which, frankly were WAY MORE EXPENSIVE than this one but had a much better, more aggressive ride. The only thing this bike had over others is the pretty design. It’s precious and designed for a ridiculous city like San Francisco, which, btw has a tremendous bike theft issue. This bike is an anachrohism — it feels like it’s something that belongs in an ultra safe suburb where you can leave it outside and no one will steal it. It’s ridiculous that Farraday has two stores in San Francisco and they’re putting out an expensive piece of shit like this. So…the ride is pedal assist only (no throttle for $3.5K), it’s as smooth as any of the other bikes I rode that day (Riese & Müller, Brompton, Stromer & others) but definitely NOT BETTER, the solid design with no shock absorption is annoying — definitely not something you can take off-road. The founder in the vid is an annoying, post-yuppie prick typical of the shitheads in San Francisco that do this elitist shit. I listened with interest as he talked about the style aspects of the bike (‘bling it out’) and little about functionality. Also…wtf is up with the non removable batteries. So…what happens when you run out juice because of the memory effect? I don’t remember Faraday doing something for this for free. So…this bike is all about the yuppie thing. NOT WORTH $3.5K. This shit is for collectors who care more about how it looks than function. Like I said, I rode it. Not worth $3.5K USD.

I’ll just buy a hub wheel ebike kit 1000watts at amazon or eBay they going for 200 hundred plus battery going for 300 to 500 hundred online , and they go 40 mph fast and better. Make any bike into ebike .

still wish I could get one of these in Australia
My dream bike would be the Porteur S (regular) with the internal gear hub and belt drive but the dark silver with the steel fenders 😀
(wonder how much a special order would set me back 😀

160 for the motor. $500 for the battery tops. You are paying almost $2k for the design. Faraday it is a good looking bike, but man people are really jumping on this $2k price point BS. Get this stuff back down to 7-800 + bike and we can talk. This bike should be $1500 tops with bulk purchasing.

I don’t watch the whole vidoe. I wonder,seems like bike is dying with the battery??? Not accessible?? If so, sorry, but how stupid is that? Even an i phone can be opened by a technician. And the bike? Cut the frame or what?? Do they wanna tell me bike is only good as the battery life and then i throw it away??? Redneck engineering???